Body of drowning victim pulled from Delaware

Thursday

Aug 27, 2009 at 2:00 AM

Barry Lewis

MONGAUP — The body of a man who drowned Sunday was pulled out of the Delaware River on Wednesday afternoon.Police say canoeists found the body of Hin Siu, 36, of Jamaica, floating about five miles downstream near Sparrowbush, from where he was last seen in the Staircase Rapids near Pond Eddy.Siu was on a rented raft with three others when it flipped. Siu, who was not wearing a life jacket, was pulled under by the current. His friends were rescued. It was the second drowning on the Delaware this year.